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Participants (ages 2 – 5) and their adult companions explore art through the introduction of elementary art terms such as color, line, shape, and texture during the Gladys’ Gang series.

Make your own holiday-scented candles! Learn candle-making basics and create two eight-ounce soy candles in tins. Taught by local candlemaker and Soak & Soy founder Melissa McGucken. All materials and supplies included. Ages 15 and up.

See work by pioneer artists of the midcentury and beyond in this insightful tour of two exhibitions. Jasper Johns’ Gifts to the CMA includes works by Warhol, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, and Johns himself. Explore the impact of these artists and learn how Johns was both shaped and influenced by his contemporaries. Then, get an in-depth look at Jackson Pollock: Mural, a work that helped catapult the famous artist’s career.

Discover the rich artistic tapestry of South Carolina. Learn about the Charleston Renaissance, Catawba pottery, and artists right here in Columbia while you explore works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Samuel Roberts, Osamu Kobayashi, Georgia O'Keeffe, and more.

CMA Docent Bauer Westeren focuses on the depiction of bodies that are in some way disabled. As someone with a disability, he is intrigued by bodies that are not “ideal” within art and what that art might be saying about physical limitations.